Word: palmes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cadets, who have visited Italy, Egypt, India, Australia, Samoa, and Henolulu, were full of tales about their adventures on this long training cruise. Stories of past days, of palm trees and of sand, of native girls and southern nights, fought for expression in this horrible language along with questions and comments, wondering and, admiring, questioning and sometimes politely criticizing on these Vereinigten Stasten von Amerika...
Rudyard Kipling to the contrary, Britain's dominion over palm and pine by no means amounts to a monopoly. Britain's dominion over rubber plants, however, is the most extensive in the world. In the early 1920's rubber-growing Britons sought to control, through the notorious Stevenson plan, the world's rubber market. They managed to stretch rubber prices to $1.23 per lb., but when the restriction scheme collapsed the price did not stop shrinking until it hit 3? per lb. early last year. Chief reason for the plan's failure was not Secretary...
Exciting as these performances were for rich, socialite Mrs. Sloane, hospitalized in Manhattan from a hip injury sustained while bathing at Palm Beach last winter, their importance lay in the fact that they rang down the curtain on the preliminary spring races for 3-year-olds. All weather-vanes on all U. S. racing stables now pointed abruptly toward Louisville, Ky. Thither was shipped in padded motor vans and horse Pullmans every 3-year-old filly, colt and gelding in the land worth its oats. There, at Churchill Downs this week, the nation's 1934 racing season would formally...
...Colonel had established a gaming place in St. Augustine, Fla., with his brother John, when Promoter Henry M. Flagler suggested that his budding social colony at Palm Beach needed a place to risk its money. Bradley's celebrated Beach Club was opened in 1898. In its 36 years, rare is the U. S. Big Name which has not applied for a guest card. The Beach Club is a large homey collection of white frame buildings on Lake Worth, not far from the yellow railway station where many of its visitors put their private cars on sidings. It is chartered...
...Palm Springs, Calif. Mrs. Nellie Coffman runs the expensive Desert Inn to which tired film actors and actresses often go for a quick rest. Mrs. Coffman found that riding horses was not so popular with her famed guests. Riding requires a warm and weighty costume, and many a Californian finds clothes a nuisance. So Mrs. Coffman sold some of her horses, put bicycles in the empty stalls. Film stars soon began to wheel madly around & around Palm Springs. Bicycling became a raging West Coast fad, spread rapidly to the East. Thus was born last year's bicycle boom which...